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Posts Tagged Washington Post

There’s been plenty of fallout from this week’s raid on The Pirate Bay, which finally took the site offline, but perhaps none more misguided than this piece by Caitlin Dewey for the Washington Post. In the article Dewey makes the loosely […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Art is the next stop for Amazon. First, Apple revolutionized selling music online. Not long after, Amazon did the same for books. Etsy made an online industry out of crafts and, of course, eBay has dominated any number of e-commerce […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Here are a few additional thoughts on the Washington Post and Jeff Bezos This, in my opinion, is close to the best possible scenario under the circumstances. Here’s what was going to happen otherwise…. The Post was going to keep […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

There has been much hand wringing in media circles in the last day over the sale of The Washington Post to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos for $250 million. And that’s just the latest sale of the week. The New York Times […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

In a case that will have ramifications for independent artists, especially photographers, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled in favor of a photographer who claimed that AFP and the Washington Post infringed his copyright by distributing images that he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…